These studies of Earth's history encompass the Biosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and Lithosphere; the Geosphere.
One of the most socially prominent facets of the paleogeosciences would be their applications to Earth's changing climate system.
The term "Paleogeoscience" was coined by the Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences (C4P)[1] research coordination network (RCN), a National Science Foundation EarthCube[2] funded project intending to foster collaboration among paleogeoscientists, paleobiologists, bioinformaticists, stratigraphers, geochronologists, geographers, data scientists, and computer scientists with an aim to dramatically improve the application of modern data management approaches, data mining technologies, and computational methods to better analyze data within the paleogeosciences and other domains and disciplines.
It combines paleoenvironmental and paleobiologial perspectives towards the goal of furthering our understanding of the interactions between life and the Earth through time.
It encompasses subjects such as Paleobiology, Paleoclimatology, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Stratigraphy, Paleobotany, Paleogeography, and more.